Parable of the Sower

Paperback Published on: 20/08/2019
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Parable of the Sower
So close to the future that is scary!
I read Kindred and I absolutely adored it so I definitely wanted to read more of Butler. And she did not disappointed at all. It is a very hard book to re... READ MORE
Iara at Reading
Parable of the Sower
A dark potential future that hits hard
Everyone knows about The Handmaid's Tale. But Octavia E Butler has been writing about women and injustice too and she is well worth reading. Parable of the... READ MORE
Sabrina at Aylesbury

Synopsis

'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' - Gloria Steinem

We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.

America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.

Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.

Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.

All that you touch,
You Change.
All that you Change,
Changes you.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9781472263667
  • Number of pages: 320
  • Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 20 mm
  • Weight: 226g
  • Languages: English

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Parable of the Sower
A powerful novel of a potential future
This book was originally published in 1993 but the world it depicts – California in the mid 2020s, torn apart by destructive climate change and drought and... READ MORE
Jane Skudder